Scientists have uncovered a rare discovery in northern Saudi Arabia — the naturally mummified remains of cheetahs preserved ...

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

In Egypt’s western desert, one of the world’s most famous archaeologists insists he is closer than ever to solving a mystery ...

From Copernicus to contemporary research, Catholics have long understood scientific inquiry as a partner with faith in the ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Historical records from 1350 show that as many as 12,000 people were buried in 11 “ plague pits ” outside the city of Erfurt, ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

“The pronounced increase in biface knapping skill evident from around half a million years ago in Britain may reflect a ...